Erasmus Victor Badejo was the father of actor Bolaji Badejo who was best known for his role in the 1979 movie "Alien" he played the human devouring iconic "monster" that bleeds acid.
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Erasmus Victor Badejo Family Info:

Father: Gabriel Akingbade Badejo
Mother: Phebe Aderibigbe Badejo

*Erasmus Victor Badejo, b.May 21, 1921-d.?*
~~~~~Occupation: Priest and Archdeacon~~~~

Wife: Elizabeth Bamidale
Siblings, in order of birth, incl. Bolaji:
Akin Badejo (brother)
Bolaji Badejo (brother) 1953-1992 "Alien" movie star, passed away from Sickle Cell Cell Anemia,
Debo Badejo (sister)
Posi Badejo (brother)
Boyega Badejo (brother)
Deji Badejo (In 1983 the youngest Badejo sibling, Deji, passed away due to sickle cell anaemia).

Erasmus Victor Badejo was born on 21st May 1921, was the son of farmer Gabriel Akingbade Badejo and Phebe Aderibigbe Badejo, a housewife. Victor was educated at the boys-only Government College in Ibadan, which had been founded by British expatriates and modeled in the vein of British boarding schools with the purpose of grooming Nigeria's future leaders and trailblazers. For a time Colonial Nigeria had been ruled by the British as a series of adjuncts governed by telephone with local leaders serving as proxies (a system of governance called indirect rule) but later administrators argued that it was their imperial duty to introduce as quickly as possible the benefits of Western experience to the local population. Hence, schools like the Government College were founded.

Victor graduated from the University College, lbadan, in 1952, and thereafter joined the Nigerian Broadcasting Service as a Senior Broadcasting Officer. Radio broadcasting had been brought to Nigeria in 1933 by the British colonial administration, and at first was used primarily to blast BBC broadcasts through loudspeakers placed in designated public areas. When the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation was formed in April 1957 it was with a Briton as its head, but Nigerians quickly began to assume managerial positions and in October 1963, three years after his country's independence from Britain, Victor Badejo became the first indigenous Director-General of the station.

As a consequence of his position the Badejo family lived comfortably, even affluently, in Africa. One guest at a party thrown for the benefit of the new Director-General was the Oba ("King") of Lagos, Adeniji Adele. Other frequent visitors and drop-ins included several Britons of esteem. "Sir Hugh Greene, the Director General of the BBC, younger brother to the famous writer Graham Greene, visited Nigeria in the late sixties and actually stayed with us in the guest chalet," explains Boyega. "My parents lived a much more glamorous life in Nigeria, so we were privileged as a family, and known as well."

Victor's eldest sons, Bolaji and older brother Akin, lived the untroubled lives typical of the children of a well known and prosperous father. "Bolaji had a hippy lifestyle," says Boyega. "Carefree, cruising around in Dad's sports car from the age of sixteen. Very hip." But Victor gave his children more than material gifts, and entrenched in them deep wells of confidence. "My father was always charming and influential," says Boyega. "We grew up like that. We all felt secure at any point in time to be individuals and believe in ourselves."

1967 Nigeria was plunged into a bloody three-year civil war, during which time the political apparatus lunged from coup to counter-coup and alternated between various democratically-elected governments and military dictatorships. Meanwhile, the breadth of the country continuously lapsed into large-scale riots and massacres with Eastern Nigerians being targeted in particular. "I was a boy then," explained Boyega, "but I remember my father was attending civil defense classes, so when we heard sirens we all gathered together in the storage room, and at another occasion because of the sensitive position of our dad as the head [of the NBC], we heard rumours that the federal soldiers were coming to occupy our compound, and we were evacuated to our relatives the whole day until very late that night."

In 2008 Chinua Achebe, author of the classic Things Fall Apart, revealed that during the turmoil Victor Badejo had given him some life-saving advice when Achebe (whose cousin had been an Eastern Nigerian army officer killed in the chaos) became a target of the warring military factions. "I was then director of broadcasting," Achebe told observer.gm, revealing that his staff "Called me and they said, 'Soldiers are looking for you. They said they want to see which is stronger, your pen or their gun.' So I picked up the phone and dialled Victor Badejo, who was the Director-General. I said, 'Victor, what is this story?' He said, 'Where are you?' I said, 'I'm at home.' He said, 'Take Christie and your children and leave.'"

Achebe noted that [Victor] Badejo's advice saved his life and that of his family. "He was quite anxious on my behalf and advised me to leave my Turnbull Road residence immediately," he wrote. Indeed, Nigerian poet and scholar Ezenwa-Ohaeto's biography of Achebe understatingly notes that "that advice from Victor Badejo, whose high rank placed him in a position where he could receive authentic information, made it clear to Achebe that the armed soldiers looking for him were not interested in inviting him to a picnic."

In 1972, after working at the NBC for twenty years, Victor Badejo resigned from his position, packed up his family, and relocated to Ethiopia. His tenure as the first indigenous Director-General of Radio Nigeria left an indelible impression on his fellow West Africans.

Africans. Diamonds are Forever: Ten Years of DAME (Diamond Awards for Media Excellence) asks us to recall "the very few multi-talented Nigerians who have made outstanding contributions to broadcasting, but who did not have to depend on broadcasting for a living as evident from their equally outstanding career outside of broadcasting." The site then adds that, "Such achievers include: Archdeacon Victor Badejo", a position he had received before his passing.

Bolaji, nineteen years old, spent his time in Ethiopia studying fine arts. "We are artists by nature from my mother's side," Boyega revealed, "my uncle was the Picasso of Nigeria, Omotayo Aiyegbusi … He attended St Martin's school of art in the 50's, and did some very crucial assignments for the BBC." And then, after three years, Victor took the family on the move again, this time to England, "and there he was in charge of a church as the vicar for the next eight years." Boyega further explains that "As a man that was mentored by the British, I think he wanted that experience of living with his family in Britain as a priest." For the Badejo children uprooting and travelling was not particularly disruptive and instead left them "excited", according to Boyega. "We were like an adventurous migrating family, very un-African."

Victor Badejo relocated like his Alien actor son to Nigeria (like his Alien actor son
Bolaji already did) and Victor was installed as Archdeacon of St. Lukes Church Uro, Ikere-Ekiti on December 1, 1984.

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